encumbrance
encumbrance 英 [ɪnˈkʌmbrəns] 美 [ɛnˈkʌmbrəns]
n. 累赘；妨害物
名词复数:encumbrances
- A burden or serious concern is an encumbrance. Your being five feet tall could be an encumbrance when it comes to your dream of playing professional basketball.
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- n. 累赘；妨害物
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1. He set off eagerly to savour the delights of London, and when she followed him made it clear she was an encumbrance.
马修迫不及待地动身去伦敦寻欢作乐，等她随后跟去时，竟发现自己成了累赘。
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2. Recognizing this encumbrance, many command-line utilities allow you to provide your username and password as command-line arguments.
正因为认识到这些阻碍的存在，所以许多命令行实用工具都允许您将用户名和密码作为命令行参数。
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3. Demand began to rise for a free operating system, something as powerful and flexible as Unix, that could be distributed and modified openly and freely without the encumbrance of commercial licenses.
人们对免费操作系统的需求开始上升，他们要求和Unix一样强大和灵活的操作系统，能够公开并且自由地分发和修改，没有商业许可证这种累赘。
- encumbrance (n.) c. 1300, "trouble, difficulty; ensnarement, temptation," from Old French encombrance "encumbrance, obstruction; calamity, trouble," from encombrer (see encumber). Meaning "that which encumbers, impediment, obstacle" is from late 14c. in English.
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